Your competitive intelligence team is predicting that the digby company will invest in adding capacity to their dug product this year. assume digby's product dug invests in increasing its capacity by 10% this year. because of this new information, your company anticipates all other products in the core segment will increase their capacity by the same amount. how much can the industry produce in the core segment the next year? consider only products primarily in the core segment last year. ignore current inventories. figures in thousands (000).product segment capacity next rounddug core 1200dune core 1450beetle core 1040bat core 1050new core 100adam core 1200if you take these numbers and add the 10% you get 6,644 for next year's capacity. however, the choices on the homework are not one of those, they are 8,585; 7385; 9564; 4840; 4025; 13288; and 8364 == this makes no sense.

8. agreement and disagreement among economists suppose that bob, an economist from a university in arizona, and cho, an economist from a public television program, are arguing over saving incentives. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: cho: i think it's safe to say that, in general, the savings rate of households in today's economy is much lower than it really needs to be to sustain an improvement in living standards. bob: i think a switch from the income tax to a consumption tax would bring growth in living standards. cho: you really think households would change their saving behavior enough in response to this to make a difference? because i don't. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due to . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? rent ceilings reduce the quantity and quality of available housing. immigrants receive more in government benefits than they contribute in taxes. having a single income tax rate would improve economic performance.

Which two of the following are benefits of consumer programs

Specialization—the division of labor—enhances productivity and efficiency by a) allowing workers to take advantage of existing differences in their abilities and skills. b) avoiding the time loss involved in shifting from one production task to another. c) allowing workers to develop skills by working on one, or a limited number, of tasks. d)all of the means identified in the other answers.